My Brother's Child.
I am sorry this took so long to get up but like I said I'm trying to deal with my young horse who may be very sweet but also has the worst stubborn streak in the world, which means I pretty much crash after I come home I will try to get the next one up as soon as I possibly can, but try to bear with me. Ta very much, enjoy! P.s. For the purpose of this story I've decided to set this after the first X-Men movie and during and after the second so whilst our trio were in Genosha the X-Men were fighting Stricker.
Chapter Four: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back.
In the morning the three friends found the nearest train station and found one that was heading North in the general direction of France. Kimieko assured them that they would somehow get a message to, not only warn Lilly of their imminent arrival but to make sure their families knew they were okay, or at least those belonging to Kim and Leo. Leonardo looked at Blink and wondered if she had a family, she'd been oddly quiet about hers as he and Kim spoke proudly of theirs. The way she'd reacted to some of the things they only joked about made him think that something had happened to her once, but he wasn't sure what, perhaps she'd lost her family in an accident. . . .
"Helloooo," Kim knocked her fist lightly on his head, "earth to Leo we're coming up to the next stop, we'd better get off this one and find another train to hitch a ride on before they catch on to us?" Leo was still staring intently at Blink and merely grunted a reply and then came quickly back to his senses when he realized she was looking back at him and she was blushing. The train stopped, they snuck off and hid in the bushes.
"Now what?" Blink asked quietly.
"I'll go ask ask a local which trains go where and. . . " She was cut off by Leo's hand as man in uniform walked past, in his hand hanging by his side was a wanted poster with their faces on it, "great," she whispered, "that rules the trains out."
"What if we find an airport?" Leo asked, if you use you're powers Kim then it would be easy for us to get into a cargo hold of a plane."
"Good idea!" Blink praised him a little louder than she'd meant to causing her to put her hand over her mouth and blush again. Leo bit back a smile thinking it made her look kind of cute.
"Well lets get to an airport there's got to be one somewhere," Kim looked around, "now let's see if I remember right, Scott told me that Genosha's near Tanzania and I'm sure we've been through Rwanda, and from the time we've taken I would have thought that we must be in Uganda or the Sudan, there must be an airport somewhere." She looked back at them, "lets get to the town and see what we can find."
It took ten minutes to follow the small track to the town and keeping to the shadows as best they could whilst under the still high sun they explored.
"You there halt!" Blink's heart leapt into her throat. She turned to see a man in a uniform like the one they'd seen at the train station, without words they ran to the next ally in between the small houses and shops. As they ran Leo noticed a girl standing in a doorway and she was beckoning them to her door.
"Come quickly!" She said in a thick African accent. They ran through the door and followed her inside, "you will be safe here mutants." They found themselves in a small shanty house with washing visible from outside and a variety of herbs hanging from the ceiling posts.
"Thank you." Kim answered through her deep breaths.
"Who are you?" Leo asked looking at the girl.
"I am called the witch doctor, I am like you I am a mutant," she replied matter of factly, "listen to me you must leave this country or those people will find you."
"We were trying to find an airport so that we might stow away to Paris." Blink explained, the girl smiled.
"My father will gladly take you in his plane, come I will take you to him." They looked at each other and followed her out of the back door and along the back of a row of similar houses, then they passed across a clearing towards a large hanger. "Wait here." The girl went inside.
"You know," Leo started after they'd been waiting for the girl for a while, "something just doesn't feel right."
"I know what you mean." Kim said nodding her head in agreement.
"Maybe we should find somewhere less out in the open?" Blink suggested as she looked around nervously. All agreed and headed for some bushes when the sound of heavy boots running towards them could be heard coming from the hanger, "It those soldiers they've found us!"
"No kidding," Kim replied a little more harshly than she'd meant to, "come on we have to get out of here!" They started to run in the opposite direction to the soldiers.
"There's no where to run freaks!" One of the soldiers shouted after them as they rounded the corner only to come face to face with more armed soldiers, "open fire!" Was heard over their radios and it took everything Blink had to open hundreds of tiny portals to protect her friends and herself from the barrage of bullets. Despite her efforts two stray bullets hits Kim, one in the shoulder the other nicked her side and she fell with a shout.
"Kim!" Leo yelled and picked her up in her arms worry etched all over his face, "Blink we have to get out of here teleport us somewhere safe!"
"I can't!" Blink said through gritted teeth.
"Why not?!"
"If I don't concentrate then she'll be more then just hurt and we'll join her!" Blink desperately fought against the fog of fatigue gradually clouding her mind.
"Try!" Blink nodded and concentrated, she'd once lost control and refused to do it again this time she would save the ones that needed her, a large portal opened up to Leo's left and he ran through and found himself in an alley they'd ran through earlier. He placed Kim on the floor and ran back through, by now Blink was on her knees from the strain and sweat was pouring down her face, Leo couldn't help thinking that she could give Raph a run for his money in stubbornness, he grabbed her by the shoulder and practically threw himself and Blink through the portal. Once they were through, the portal closed and blink collapsed onto her back and lay there panting for a few minutes whilst Leo checked Kim, he un-knotted his bandana and tied it around the shoulder wound and decided that the side wound wasn't anything to worry about, "you okay Blink?" He said turning to her.
"I . . . think . . . so. . ." She panted, she looked up quickly as she heard yet more footsteps coming closer.
"How far can those portals go?" Leo asked looking straight ahead.
"As far as I want them to go, why?" Leo nodded then looked at her.
"You teleport back to that school of yours with Kim," he got up and headed off towards the sound of the running soldiers, "I'll keep them busy," he started to run then stopped and turned to her, "nice knowing you Blink, oh and if you meet my brothers tell them, well you know." Then he ran off leaving Blink gaping after him. She looked once at Kim then back to the alley Leo had taken then back at Kim again.
"Oh well you only live once, right?" She said not really a hundred percent sure she wanted to do this but something about Leonardo made her want to help him, besides she wanted to be one of the professor's X-men didn't she? So here was her chance to show she could be a hero and wasn't a worthless freak of nature. Blink took a deep breath and opened a portal and Kim gently slipped through and, knowing that she would now be well taken care of she ran off after Leo.
Two days later in Westchester, New York:
Kim awoke with a start and found herself in familiar surroundings, it was the mansion's infirmary, but she didn't remember getting there, had all that had happened been a bad dream? She tried to move and the sharp pain in her shoulder told her it wasn't.
"Good morning Kimieko, I'm glad that you're awake." Kim looked around to see the only other person she'd respected enough to call teacher, other than her mother, approaching in his state of the art wheelchair.
"Professor," she said smiling, "where's Blink and Leo?"
"I'm afraid they are not here," Charles Xavier sighed, "we would have come looking for you Kimieko but we have been. . . busy," Charles thought back to the last few weeks, "when you slipped through one of Blink's portals we were in the middle of organizing a search party to find you, I pinpointed Blink's position but when Scott and the others got there she was gone and I could no longer sense her."
"You don't think they're. . . do you." Kim looked at him pleadingly.
"I don't know, but I have a friend in an organization called SHIELD who is gathering any and all information for me," he placed a hand on her good shoulder, "we will find them Kimieko."
"Professor, there's some people I think we should find."
The Sewers, New York:
Chrissy silently made the pot of tea and took it to Splinter's room, she lightly tapped on the door and heard a soft reply of enter.
"I made you some tea Splinter." she placed the pot and cup on his side table and noticed for what must have been the fifth time how thin he was becoming and how very old he looked, "if you're hungry Mikey and I will be making dinner soon, would you like us to set a place for you as well?"
"Where are my sons child?"
"Oh um, well Donnatello is surfing the net to see if he can find anything useful, Michealangelo is out on the sewer slider searching the tunnels again in case he missed anything and Raphael is out with Cat patrolling the city in case any dragons or street thugs know anything." Splinter sighed still unaccustomed to the missing name form Christina's ritual roll call, Leonardo had been missing for weeks now and all they had found was his kattana and sheaths, nothing else, not even a trace of blood, even the purple dragons seemed to know nothing about his disappearance. After each day it became more and more hopeless, he'd almost lost his son once before when Leonardo had been out alone but the fates had brought the pupil back to his sensei, but this time it seemed Splinter's worst nightmare had occurred, he had lost one of his sons forever.
"Please Child I wish to be alone." Chrissy nodded and left to wonder the empty layer. She found herself looking over at two crossed blades hung lovingly on one of the walls, the blue strapping around the handles making it obvious to whom they'd belonged. Chrissy wiped a small tear away as she remembered Raphael hanging those there. Raphael, of all people had been the most effected after Splinter, she swore that if it wasn't for Cat he would have killed somebody by now, probably himself. She was his anchor that he needed now more than anything else short of his brother back safe and sound and even she, a telepath was unsure if that would ever happen. The only one who seemed to be coping well with the disappearance was Mikey, he'd let slip to her the other day that he'd dreamt that Leo would come back with a new friend and they'd all be happy again. She'd been told of his dreams before and hoped that, for his sake this one also came true and wasn't simply his mind showing him what he wanted to see.
"Please Leo you have to come back," she said to the swords, "we need you."
SHIELD is like a more advance Interpole that deals with things all over the world, again something I pinched form the comics, but it does get mentioned in the X-Men Evolution cartoons too.
Well there ya go took long enough huh, but I kind of got a little writers block and wasn't sure how to put the ideas for this one in words. Sorry if it sucks a little and you should find out what happened to Leo and Blink in the next chappy, plus a little about her past. Thank you sooooooo much for all you're lovely reviews they're much appreciated. Toodles, Angel.